IT was the face that launched a thousand accusations of antisemitism, each as hysterical as the face in question was hideous. It started with a cover story on the Italian magazine L’Espresso, featuring an Israeli soldier-settler-terrorist filming a distraught Palestinian woman whom he and his fellow settler-soldier-terrorist friends had come to harass. It was a scene that occurs almost daily in occupied Palestine with the approval and support of the government and armed forces of Israel, and the story in L’Espresso — titled ‘Abuse’ — is nothing new for those who follow these daily acts of harassment and occupation.

What really triggered the Zionists, though, wasn’t the content of the story but the face of the said soldier which is so fascinatingly ugly that you simply cannot tear your eyes away from it even as your senses revolt and your stomach churns. His thin lips are pulled back in a simian grin exposing pallid, retracting gums and yellowed teeth with the hint of fangs. His eyes are demonic, crowned by a single long eyebrow that resembles nothing as much as it does a giant furry caterpillar, the kind you would have a heart attack to find on your pillow. His sideburns, long and matted formed two sickly dreadlocks — like a hellish........

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